Geologist,
anthropologist, and hydrologist. Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches,
articles, scientific papers, lectures, notes, geological notebooks, scrapbooks,
bibliographical notes, and memorabilia relating chiefly to McGee's career as a
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and as an ethnologist in charge of
the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes
correspondence when he was director of the anthropological and historical
exhibit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.